UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): March 4, 2005
TAG-IT PACIFIC, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
DELAWARE 1-13669 95-4654481
(State or other jurisdiction (Commission File Number) (I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation) Identification No.)
21900 BURBANK BOULEVARD, SUITE 270
WOODLAND HILLS, CA 91367
(Address of Principal Executive Offices/Zip Code)
(818) 444-4100
(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)
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ITEM 5.02 DEPARTURE OF DIRECTORS OR PRINCIPAL OFFICERS; ELECTION OF
DIRECTORS; APPOINTMENT OF PRINCIPAL OFFICERS.
RESIGNATION OF CURRENT CFO
On March 4, 2005, we announced that Ronda Ferguson, our current Chief
Financial Officer and principal financial and accounting officer, would resign
from the position of Chief Financial Officer and will take a lesser position
with our company, effective as of April 1, 2005.
APPOINTMENT OF NEW CFO
We also announced that August F. DeLuca will be appointed, effective as
of April 1, 2005, to replace Ms. Ferguson as our Chief Financial Officer and
will serve as our principal financial and accounting officer.
August F. DeLuca (age 61) joins us from Kistler Aerospace Corporation,
a company which is developing a fully-reusable, unmanned launch vehicle designed
to place satellites into earth orbits. Since April 2000, Mr. DeLuca served as
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Kistler Aerospace,
supervising all accounting and financial controls, treasury, investor relations,
financial modeling and risk management responsibilities. In this role, Mr.
DeLuca negotiated lines of credit approaching $200 million and secured $70
million in private equity commitments. Prior to Kistler Aerospace, Mr. DeLuca
spent 11 years as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance for Elco
Textron, Inc., a $320 million publicly held company based in Rockford, Illinois
which manufactured and distributed products for the automotive, industrial,
consumer and construction markets which was acquired by Textron, Inc. (NYSE: TXT
- - News). Mr. DeLuca has a bachelor's degree in engineering and mathematics from
the University of Michigan, a Master's degree from the University of Southern
California, and an MBA (Finance/Accounting) from the University of Washington.
He has completed the Advanced Management Program from the Harvard Business
School.
Mr. DeLuca did not have any material interest, direct or indirect, in
any material transaction to which we were a party since January 1, 2004, or
which is presently proposed.
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
TAG-IT PACIFIC, INC.
Date: March 10, 2005 By: /S/ COLIN DYNE
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Colin Dyne
Chief Executive Officer
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